CHICAGO (WLS) -- Attorneys for the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) have argued in court that federal agents working for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violated the law when they detained a family of four this past weekend in front of the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park.

The arrest took place on Sunday when U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino, along with tens of masked, armed agents dressed in camouflage were seen patrolling the streets of downtown Chicago, in a show of force aimed at advancing President Trump's massive deportation agenda.

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The local effort has been codenamed "Operation Midway Blitz."

According to a Tuesday court filing by attorneys with the NIJC, agents arrested two pare

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